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The terrestrial true bugs Heteroptera collected in three provinces of the South-East part of Anatolia (Diyarbakır, Mardin, Elazığ) are listed. It is based on a short but intensive collecting trip made in May-June 2010. Two hundred eighty six species and subspecies belonging to 19 families and 178 genera are reported: Ochteridae (1), Saldidae (2), Leptopodidae (1), Tingidae (16), Miridae (103), Nabidae (5), Anthocoridae (5), Reduviidae (12), Aradidae (1), Berytidae (7), Lygaeidae (53), Pyrrhocoridae (2), Stenocephalidae (1), Alydidae (1), Coreidae (10), Rhopalidae (12), Cydnidae (6), Scutelleridae (10), Pentatomidae (37). The species list includes remarks on taxonomy, nomenclature, biology or distribution. Fourteen species are recorded from Turkey for the first time; all of them are mirid plant bugs except three species belonging respectively to anthocorid, reduvid and lygaeid families. Some of them are illustrated